Faculty
Investigators
Dr. Cherie Westbrook (Director)
Department of Geography and Planning, Centre for Hydrology, University of Saskatchewan
Research Interests: ecohydrology; wetland and riparian ecosystems; effects of beavers on mountain wetland hydrology; surface water/groundwater interaction; modelling the downstream hydrological and water quality impacts of wetland drainage; flood risk management
Dr. Helen Baulch
School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan
Research Interests: water quality; aquatic ecology; global change; biogeochemical cycles; greenhouse gas emissions; eutrophication; algal blooms; climate change
Dr. Sean Carey
School of Geography and Earth Sciences, McMaster University
Research Interests: hydrology; biometeorology; cold regions; reclamation; landscape disturbance
E-mail Website (905) 525-9140 ext. 20134
Dr. Dustin Garrick
Department of Political Science, McMaster University
Research Interests: public policy, economics, water policy
E-mail Website (905) 525-9140 ext. 26596
Dr. Masaki Hayashi
Department of Geoscience, University of Calgary
Research Interests: alpine hydrology; frozen soil processes; groundwater-surface water interaction; groundwater sustainability
Dr. Jeffrey McDonnell
Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan
Research interests: hillslope and watershed hydrology
Dr. Bram Noble
Department of Geography and Planning, University of Saskatchewan
Research interests: impacts of natural resource development; environmental impact assessment; cumulative effects assessment; environmental policy, land use planning and management; mineral and energy resource development
Dr. Richard Petrone
Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo
Research interests: ecohydrology; hydrometeorology; climatology; micrometeorology; climate change; biogeochemistry; greenhouse gases; reclamation; landuse change; forest hydrology.
E-mail Website (519) 888-4567 ext. 39174
Dr. John Pomeroy
Centre for Hydrology, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Saskatchewan
Research interests: physical hydrology emphasizing cold regions processes; watershed modeling; snow; forests; mountains; prairies; arctic; hydrometeorology; hydrochemistry; ecohydrology; instrumentation
Dr. Ronald Stewart
Department of Environment and Geography, University of Manitoba
Research interests: extreme weather research including storms and their precipitation; droughts; storm-climate interactions.
Dr. Howard Wheater
Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan
Research interests: hydrological processes and modelling, with applications to the management of flood risk, water resources, water quality, wastes and climate change adaptation; socio-hydrology
Faculty Collaborators
Dr. Lee Barbour
Department of Civil, Geological, and Environmental Engineering, University of Saskatchewan
Research interests: Geotechnical/Geo-environmental: Saturated/Unsaturated Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport, Mine Waste Reclamation
Dr. Angela Bedard-Haughn
Department of Soil Science, University of Saskatchewan
Research interests: how land use and climate changes affect, and are affected by, pedologic properties of Canadian ecosystems, with an emphasis on soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics using field measurements and stable isotope techniques
Dr. Ken Belcher
Department of Bioresource Policy, Business, and Economics, University of Saskatchewan
Research interests: Ecological economics; resource and environmental economics; environmental policy; climate change; wetland and wildlife conservation policy
Dr. Edwin Cey
Department of Geosciences, University of Calgary
Research interests: Groundwater Recharge and Groundwater-Surface Water Interaction, Preferential Flow and Transport Processes in Macroporous Soils, Fate and Transport of Colloids and Bacteria in the Vadose Zone
Dr. Edward Johnson
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary
Research interests: wildfires, avalanches, hillslope and fluvial geomorphic processes, climate, landuse, and other processes as they affect tree populations
Dr. Jonathan Price
Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo
Research interests: peatland/wetland hydrology, peatland construction and restoration
E-mail Website (519) 888-4567 ext. 35711
Dr. Maria Strack
Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo
Research interests: Soil greenhouse gas fluxes, wetland restoration, ecohydrology, organic soil physics, mitigation of land-use change greenhouse gas fluxes
E-mail Website (519) 888-4567 ext. 30164